Qin Official

It is said that King Wu conquered the merchants, and eight hundred princes gathered in Mengjin, including the Ba Kingdom. Many Ba warriors traveled thousands of miles to join King Wu of Zhou, and followed him from the coast of the Wei River to the Dayi merchants in the Central Plains. , singing and dancing in the Battle of Muye, and made great contributions to King Wu's defeat of Zhou...

Now, Hei Fu had the honor to reenact the original scene. After the incident at Wu Luo Zhongli Mountain, the Ba people obeyed Hei Fu's request and followed him to leave Yidao and march to the southeast.

However, when Heifu and Wei Lingkui of Yiling County led more than a thousand soldiers and 3,000 young Ba people to reach Chaling City over a distance of 200 miles, they realized that their run was in vain.

According to rumors, the Chu army that gathered nearly 10,000 people here has long since disappeared, leaving only an empty camp. The black magpie was circling up and down above, and some Qin soldiers were still inside collecting the remaining military supplies, carrying large bags of food and discarded weapons, and walked into the city talking and laughing.

When they saw a group of barefoot Ba people approaching noisily and noisily, the Qin army became very nervous and thought they were enemy troops. So two thousand people immediately formed a formation outside the city. It was not until Heifu himself hit the horse and showed his identity that their hostility was dispelled.

When Heifu passed by the city wall, he found that corpses were still being collected here. The air was filled with the smell of crows that specialized in eating carrion. There were still many floating corpses floating in the ditch and moat. The loess walls of the gurgling hills were badly damaged, and there were There were traces of being burned by fire, and the city gate was also filled with arrows. It is conceivable that at the same time as the Battle of Yi Dao, a tragic battle also took place here.

Only after he saw County Lieutenant Li You and a group of familiar soldiers and county lieutenants in the city did he learn what happened here.

It turned out that after the county governor Ye Teng learned that the Chu army's main attack direction was Jialing, he immediately returned to Jiangling by boat and mobilized local county soldiers to cross the river for support. After all, Jiling's status was much more important than that of Yidao. This army was personally commanded by the county lieutenant Li You and numbered four to five thousand people. Subsequent reinforcements also continued to arrive from counties along the river.

Faced with the Qin Army's rapid increase in troops and the fact that Yidao did not open up the situation, the commander-in-chief of the Chu Army decisively chose to retreat. The Qin Army was outnumbered and did not pursue it deeply. As a result, the Mengxia offensive ended hastily. .

"what a pity!"

Hei Fu secretly thought that it was a pity. If the Chu army generals had been lucky, they might have been attacked by the Qin army and the Ba people now, and more than a few hundred people would have died in the battle.

However, he flattered Li You and said: "Fortunately, the county captain came in time to prevent the Chu people from succeeding. Otherwise, if we lose Jiling, Yidao will not be able to save it. This summer and autumn, Nanjun's preparations for war will be greatly affected." The impact will probably make it difficult to send troops to Huaibei to participate in the destruction of Chu!"

Li You shook his head helplessly and said, "Otherwise, although we did not capture Jiling in this battle, the Chu people's goal has been achieved."

"I would like to hear the detailed explanation."

Heifu looked confused and was willing to listen to Li You's teachings.

Li You said to everyone: "Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the king is determined to destroy Chu. How could the people of Chu not know? The reason why he sent envoys to incite the Yidaoba people to rebel and sent troops to attack Jiling was simply to put pressure on Nanjun and let the people of Chu know. Nanjun cannot concentrate on preparing for the war. The main force of the Chu army in the south of the Yangtze River is still there. If Nanjun sends all his troops to Huaibei, Chaling, Yidao, and even Jiangling may be attacked by the Chu army again."

Heifu understands that although it is still too early for the decisive battle, the struggle between Qin and Chu has already begun. King Chu and Xiang Yan will not sit still and wait for death. They will try to find loopholes in Qin. In Shangcai, There are no flaws in the Liang and Song Dynasties, so let’s start from the off-angle Nanjun...

The Chu people's plan can be said to be half successful. Nanjun, which faces Chu State across the river and has crisscrossed borders, must first consider its own safety. So Li You changed his original plan. When he sent troops after the autumn, he decided to leave 20,000 people in Nanjun to defend Chu, and only took 10,000 people to Huaibei to join the main army.

This also means that the county soldiers in Jiangling and Ying counties, as well as the soldiers in the counties along the river, will not go out to fight.

"In this case, if you stay in the county or along the river, you will probably end up with an idle job."

Hei Fu secretly kept Li You's plan in mind, and then when Li You asked him about the situation of Yi Dao, he took Li You to the dilapidated city and pointed several miles away, surrounded by the Qin army vigilantly. Three thousand Yi Daoba people.

Li You looked at the Ba people sitting back to back and was a little surprised: "I just planned to relieve the crisis in Chaling, so I sent people to Yidao to help. Unexpectedly, you quelled the rebellion first and recovered the local Ba people tribes. Driving him to fight for Qin? How did you do it?"

Heifu then told everything that happened in Yi Dao in the past half month. When he heard that they had lobbied the tribes of Yi Dao to kill the evil fan Qin at Zhongli Mountain in Wuluo, Li You couldn't help but clasp his hands. And praised: "Well done! The crux of the Ba people's rebellion lies in the ruler. Once Fan Qin dies, it will naturally fall apart."

Li You greatly admired Heifu's ability and means, but Heifu said that he just had an idea, mainly due to the lobbying of Ba Zhong, the son of Widow Qing...

"Furthermore, besides wanting to assist the county captain in rescuing the siege, my subordinates induced the tribes of the Ba people to come here with me. There is another reason!"

Heifu cupped his hands towards Li You and said coldly: "County Lieutenant, the Ba people rebelled and killed the county magistrate and county lieutenant of Yidao. Although the blame was all placed on Fan Qin and his tribe, among these people, the ones in their hands were There are not a few people here who are stained with the blood of the Qin people. Now, due to the situation, they have surrendered again under Ba Zhong's persuasion, but they may one day rebel because of some trivial matter. If they just let it go, it may be difficult to convince them. oral."

"you mean……"

Li You couldn't help being shocked, lowered his voice and said: "Treat him to death!?"

Hei Fu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Where did Lieutenant Li think of this?

This kind of method is not unfamiliar to the generals of the Qin State. More than thirty years ago, after the Battle of Changping, under the pressure of food, military achievements, etc., Bai Qi used "Zhao soldiers are repeated, do not kill them all, for fear of causing chaos" "For the reason, kill all the Zhao soldiers who surrendered!"

All the young men of the Yidaoba people are here, and the Qin army has at least five or six thousand, and is at an absolute advantage in terms of numbers and equipment. If they suddenly burst out and kill them all, it would not be too difficult to calculate them intentionally or not.

This is a desperate method that looks very tempting. If it is really done, although it will make the Yidaoba people unable to recover from the fall, there will be many consequences.

First of all, Heifu's reputation will be ruined after this. He vowed to let the Ba people follow him to Jiling, but he betrayed his promise and killed them all. From then on, every Ba people will want to eat his flesh raw.

Secondly, the Yidaoba people were severely hit, but what about the hundreds of thousands of Ba people in Bajun, Nanjun, and Qianzhong counties? Can we still use this method to eliminate them one by one? Obviously it is impossible, and it goes against the gentle policy adopted by the Qin State. If this matter spreads, I am afraid that the Ba people on the border between Qin and Chu will surrender to the Chu State.

So Heifu smiled and said: "I didn't mean that, I just thought that if you want to recover the Ba people, blindly giving soft concessions is not feasible, and you need to beat them from time to time. It's a pity that the Chu people retreated so fast that the Ba people couldn't see them. They were defeated. But now that a large army has gathered here, it is better to take this opportunity and let the army officers and soldiers perform martial arts on the outskirts of the city to show the strength of the Qin State to the Ba people and let these ignorant border barbarians know the power of the Qin Army. ! Then take advantage of the situation to force the rulers to hand over the murderers who participated in the killing of Qin people and Qin soldiers, bring them to justice, and repay the wronged souls to justice!"